Recent content by Tohoya

I agree that what a film makes you feel during it is the most important thing, but some of us are more analytical than others. Some of us consume media in order to feel something, and some of us use it to sharpen our ability to logically think through complex systems. Obviously, speculative...

Your "First World Problems" problem seems a little hypocritcal to me. "I hate it when people worse off than me point out that my problems are pretty insignificant compared to theirs... but fuck the really rich people for being embroiled in relatively insignificant problems!"

I find it surprising that a group normally all in favor of consumer protection against unscrupulous business practices so against this. Misleading advertising is illegal (or at least a cause of action under our civil court system), and rightly so. Corporations should not be able to hoodwink...

You are clearly a loving human being.

Uh, no. You're flat wrong here. I almost always play on the higthest difficulty allowable (though I do appreciate it when the game allows me to switch difficulty mid-stream if one part becomes particularly onerous).

I completely disagree with the author?s focus on realism. Ultimately, for me at least, the game is simply numbers. An RPG could disguise its mechanics as armies clashing, as adventurers fighting off enemies, as a sport, as gladiatorial arenas, as business, or as space combat. The important...